“Thank you for listening to your uncle, and for writing this true story of courage and survival.
You have made his recollections into an outstanding, definitive, carefully-researched and
thoroughly-documented history of those life-defining times. The book flows in such a way that
the reader will feel the psychological effects of combat. Those who read it will appreciate, in
detail, the risks of flying combat missions, and what it took to be a combat crew member. It is a
fitting tribute to your uncle and his crew, and thus to all men who served with the 57th Bomb
Wing in North Africa, Sicily, Corsica and Italy during the war.”